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Set Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)Brendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:12pm
I was wondering how Gawker would manage to use this to cut at Hillary. Thanks for not making me wait too long to find out the answer, Brendan. It’s always illuminating over here.
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  gimmesummerSet Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)
  3/15/16 8:22pm
  Could you point out the sentence Hillary is mentioned in? I seem to have missed it. Oh wait, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT HILLARY TO YOU.
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  CnslrNachosSet Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)
  3/15/16 8:22pm
  LOL
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LuciferaseBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:37pm
B-b-but, Bernie Sanders is the next Che Fucking Guevara. Despite being a lifelong politician, he’s clearly a REVOLUTIONARY.
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  snugglefuckLuciferase
  3/15/16 9:00pm
  Sorry, how can a politician not be a revolutionary?
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  flamingolingoLuciferase
  3/15/16 9:22pm
  Dude, yes!
  
  I read that old RS article Taibbi mentioned back when Sanders started gaining some momentum and came away with a lower opinion of the Senator’s political acumen.
  
  Maybe others read it and were inspired by the fact that his dogged efforts amounted to very little consequence? I was troubled by it. Was he gonna do that pointless crap as president? Because I remember when liberals were hollering their heads off when Obama did that sort of thing during his first term. I doubt they’d be any happier if their Dear Leader did the same thing.
  
  Sanders probably would be a good revolutionary leader if the zombie apocalypse went down. But he’s a terrible politician.
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greenbreezgrlBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:15pm
The Times has become a joke. They’ll cover all manner of petty pop culture these days (I love pop culture), and yet they have not given this man a serious glance yet. It’s actually worse than when Obama ran — and my reading of their paper dropped off a lot then too.
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  GoOnWithoutMegreenbreezgrl
  3/15/16 8:22pm
  And have you seen The Washington Post?
  
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w… as an example.
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  DetMunchOneLinerGoOnWithoutMe
  3/15/16 8:26pm
  The Post is actually pretty great. Their investigative and longform journalism have been shaming the NYT lately. And their Snowden and Secret Service reporting was pretty ballsy. But they do need to do a better job separating the fluff on their website and stop using clickbait headlines.
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VanNostrandBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:17pm
Man, Matt Taibbi is just too good for Rolling Stone.
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  EatTheCheeseNicholsonVanNostrand
  3/15/16 9:30pm
  I’m really wishing that him, Mark Ames and Sasha Levine could let bygones be bygones and start their own shop again. I’d read the hell out of that.
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  husseinshadyEatTheCheeseNicholson
  3/16/16 2:02am
  I’m still in eXile withdrawal.
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Nine-Leaf CloverBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:49pm
Not an American and not an idiot here, so my lesson here is that Sander’s ‘failure’ is that he’s actually the best candidate because he’s consistent, honest and rational and he espouses solid economic policies?

And your mainstream daytime 24-hour all access infomercial friendly ‘news’ opinion people go after him.

You’re fucked, America.
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  snugglefuckNine-Leaf Clover
  3/15/16 8:59pm
  Don’t worry, we like to fuck things up for the rest of the world too, and after these elections we’ll be sure to do plenty more of that. So you’re fucked too.
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  You might be wrong.snugglefuck
  3/15/16 10:17pm
  It does always seem unfair that only Americans get to vote in US presidential elections, all things considered.
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Ned FreyBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 9:06pm
replaced with two completely incoherent sentences: ....
What does that mean? And why is it so terribly written?

Actually, those two sentences looked pretty clear to me. (The thing about the stars, moon and sun is a play on the common idiom, “promise [someone] the moon.” Does that make it clearer?)

And I agree with exactly what was stated in those two sentences. But I could understand how loyal Sanders supporters would take issue with them.
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  flamingolingoNed Frey
  3/15/16 9:16pm
  If you’re not verbally fellating Sanders, then they’re gonna complain.
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  asteriosNed Frey
  3/15/16 9:36pm
  Agreed that Brendan doesn’t show much good judgment about writing here. A lot of the stuff in red is just awful, and it makes sense that someone else would clean it up with more concise, forceful language that is more in the Times style.
  
  (I mean, “to scratch his particular policy itch?” Really? Or that weird sentence about butter and grease.)
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Doofenschmirtz, Inc.Brendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:21pm
This is not a surprising shit stunt pulled at the behest of Margaret Sullivan when she was gifted the position by the half-competent Jill Abramson.

The issue here isn’t really the clear and obvious bias so much as the outright LIE that Taibbi got as an answer.

The truth is that the NYT does not significantly change its articles even when then their errors are proven. I distinctly remember an article about test-driving the Tesla, and the author of the piece basically saying it was a horrible experience because the car wasn’t accelerating properly, ran out of power, etc. When Tesla people wrote to correct the record, that the reporter was lying and they had the recorders on the car to prove it, Margaret Sullivan flippantly dismissed their complaints and the article was never corrected.
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  asteriosDoofenschmirtz, Inc.
  3/15/16 9:44pm
  “ When Tesla people wrote to correct the record, that the reporter was lying and they had the recorders on the car to prove it, Margaret Sullivan flippantly dismissed their complaints and the article was never corrected.”
  
  That’s because Tesla was full of shit. I read the original review and Tesla’s petulant rebuttal. It was clear that the battery significantly underperformed when it was cold out, which was the substance of the story. Tesla pointed to a lot of irrelevant details to “prove” the journalist was a liar, but the fact remained that the car did not deliver the promised range. Tesla acted like this should be expected but still questioned all of the reviewer’s movements and decisions, as if that mattered.
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  Doofenschmirtz, Inc.asterios
  3/15/16 9:59pm
  The recorder in the car which proved that the reviewer was lying out of his ass about what happened during the test drive is a ‘tiny detail’? GTFO.
  
  Tesla made a pretty decent car that a lot of people bought it, and continue to buy it so that cheaper versions are coming out in the next couple of years.
  
  How much do you want to bet that the NYT corporation owns a significant number of shares in the likes of GM, Ford and Toyota, all of which are threatened by Tesla’s entrance into the market?
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BobbySeriousBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:10pm

GIF

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ScalfinBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 9:17pm
It is really amazing how nasty supporters of the “progressive who gets things done” get when it’s shown how pretty much everyone has gotten more done than her.
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  clickSuckaScalfin
  3/15/16 10:07pm
  Don’t confuse passionate belief in your candidate with “fuck it let’s go to McDonald’s"
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Sid and FinancyBrendan O'Connor
3/15/16 8:21pm
Most stars are substantially more massive than the sun and moon combined.
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  Ned FreySid and Financy
  3/15/16 10:06pm
  This is a good point. The metaphor is astronomically flawed.
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